I closed on the home Mike and I shared together Thursday. It was difficult understandably, but the worse part of it was being sick all week and getting myself to the title company.  I had come down with a virus and just felt worse as the week went on.

It didn't help that that the couple moving in was there at the same time.  I had asked for a separate time slot, but the new couples excitement must have over ridden that request.   Maybe it helped to be "out of it" as much as I possibly could be.

Friday I was admitted to the hospital for fluids and observation. Every test has returned normal.  Two cultures were taken last Wednesday and that may shed some light.  It is a possibility I have picked up the virus from my Cocker's, since they have had similar symptoms.The Vet thought their Cushing's Disease may have been the reason behind their problems..but I doubt that applies to me.  Still in bed for now.  I may have results by the end of next week.

After I recover, the Vet would like for me to take Chloe and Hailey to Little Rock to see a specialist.  Please pray I can get back on my feet!

hmmmmmm.........

I'm in cast number three now.  The second one only lasted four days before falling apart and Glenn needing to use duck tape to keep it together. 

The doctor and nurse looked at me like I'm purposely damaging it.  The doc even asked me if I had swam in it!  Thankfully, I was so struck by the silliness of her question, and slow to finding the right words to say, Glenn spoke up and put her in her place before I could say anything.

Her next idea was placing me in cast where I couldn't walk on it at all, and would need crutches, or do surgery to take the bones out.  Glenn and I insisted on trying a boot first, or I was walking out of there with nothing.  This has been so crazy the last three weeks!

The good thing is I can actually shower now, instead of taking a bath and trying to hang my foot out of the tub.  Believe me....at this age, that isn't easy!  And....the best outcome, is now I can swim.  Hope this shows her in two weeks we made the right decision.

Otherwise...the other thing going on the past few days is Chloe being sick.  What's worse than your pup feeling bad?  Not finding a vet to speak to over the weekend to help you make her better.  She has been at the clinic all morning receiving fluids while they run tests.  I was able to go back and visit with her a couple of hours after they had her, and she looked so pitiful.  I hated to leave her there.  But hopefully, I'll receive a call from them soon to go and pick her up and she'll be on the mend.

As the world keeps turning............

Received the good new I was expecting!  PTL  The cause for my latest diagnosis is ideopathic....unexplainable.  No tumor or mass.  It will just be treated by medication for the remainder of my life. 

Thank you for your prayers.

Glenn and I went to LR to see his spinal surgeon this morning.  The surgeon decided to give Glenn three injections....one into his neck, and two into his spine, to see if they would help relieve some of the pain and discomfort he has at times.  It was mutually decided, that surgery would be put off as a last resort to repair any herniated disks.  After nine back surgeries, that would be the last option for Glenn since he has experienced very serious complications before (for example spinal meningitis and a pulmonary embolism).

As for me...There are still no results from the MRI.  I'm expecting a letter any day to assure me everything is fine.

I did end up having a new cast put on my leg today.  I felt it was very loose and that turned out to be correct.  The break is in a bad location and is possibly an old break (maybe when I fell down the stairs after serving Mike breakfast in bed one day a few years ago) that has recently been re-broken...while moving.  They are using this cast to try and fuse the bones together, but it's not looking very promising.  There was some more discussion about possibly needing surgery to correct this. ugh!

Glenn and I are continuing to work on our projects around the house.  We are trying to complete the deck now leading out from the house to the pool.  Glenn is also repairing a job the pool installers did to backwash the pool.  He has dug up quite a lot of dirt to get down to the pipe they installed, so he can redo things to his liking.  We also purchased some decking boards to complete the project.  We decided to make the decking smaller...largely because we're a little worn out at this point and because we feel we have enough entertaining space. 

Glenn is also trying to wire the pool house with electricity.  Right now it is quite the sauna to walk in there.  We purchased a small air conditioner for the space, but it just isn't cooling things done enough.  So we plan to eventually insulate that building and wire it correctly for the air conditioner.

Always on the go......
Beverly